- Respect the teachings of all Buddhist traditions as your own.
- As a manifestation of compassion, make efforts to become vegetarian.
- Live the Precepts and the Bodhisattva Vows.
- Knowledge should support practice, just as the left foot supports the right. Without practice, knowledge is hollow.
- Make efforts to bring Dharma to those who are in need. Contribute time, energy, and material means to the Sangha.
- Have gratitude and loyalty to the many generations of the teachers who have passed the Dharma to us.
- Treat all people equally. A person’s sex, sexual orientation, race, social status, political view, and faith do not affect their Buddha Nature.
- Live a simple life; be a monk (male or female) at heart.
- Do not waste time arguing about either politics or religion.
- Meet anger with patience and a calm mind. Do not return anger for anger. Always remember to set an example as a Dharma Teacher.
- To realize wisdom and compassion look deeply into suffering and happiness; one should consider the happiness of others as our own happiness and vice versa, and the suffering of others as our own suffering and vice versa.
- Contemplate impermanence in order to value and enjoy the present.